Deceive Collection

Speaking With Ponce
This sketch shows a gentlemen adjusting the buttons of his friend's jacket, while saying I confess this to you, Ponce: I was almost afraid that my wife would deceive me. Date: circa 1901

A Norwegian huldre, whose everyday appearance is calculated to deceive the naive countryman. Date: 1879

Food adulteration, 1845
London improvements : adulteration of food in 1845. Sand is added to sugar, milk is watered down, bone dust and plaster of paris is added to dough and Vitriol is mixed into gin. Date: 1845

Dummy heads rising above the side of a trench, WW1
Four dummy heads of British soldiers rising above the side of a trench during the First World War, to deceive potential snipers. Date: 1914-1918

Cartoon, Forever Young - Appearances Deceive - Theatre Makeup. early 19th century

Illustration that recreates the hunting of large mammals (mammoths, woolly rhinos and elephants) using traps during the Upper Paleolithic. Painting

Dummy gun batteries: German ingenuity, to deceive the artillery and range-seeking airmen of the allies

Mother in Law / Not Deceiv
A mother-in-law tells a drunken young husband that he might be able to deceive his innocent wife, but never his mother-in-law (shes obviously seen it all before)

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